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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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AG <ang@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
: 
:> > that are provided by the language. That is, an option to override the
:> > compilers regular job?
:>
:> When it is necessary. For example:
: 
: the package and be able to do things like  'range  *no matter how that
: index is implemented*. Should be up to the implementor really - if it
: can't be done, so be it. 

I trust compiler writers have their reasons for Ada arrays :)
(I vaguely remember an example by Tucker Taft where he showed how
you can have the effect of non-contigous indices, if that is of
interest here.)